Cézanne Again

[Cézanne] is the father of us all.
—Matisse and Picasso

[I]t is true that there is hardly one modern artist of importance to whom Cézanne is not father or grandfather, and that no other influence is comparable with his.
—Clive Bell, Art Critic, 1922

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We’ve already talked about how Cézanne was the father of modern art, but until recently I hadn’t realized he also, because of Hemingway, had a profound influence on modern American literature.

If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxmbourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musee du Luxembourg…. I went there nearly every day for the Cézannes and to see the Manets and the Monets and the other Impressionists that I had first come to know about in the Art Institute at Chicago. I was learning something from the painting of Cézanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions that I was trying to put in them. I was learning very much from him but I was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone. Besides it was a secret.
—Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Oh, yes. It makes compete sense, even if I would never have figured it out by myself. Who would have guessed? He did say it was a secret.